Also hate when people butcher phrases: I know someone for whom, "Six of one, half-dozen of the other," is "One-half dozen other". And the way she says it, I think that she's never actually thought about the phrase, and how her version makes no sense whatsoever.

Less of an issue vocally, but in writing, "could of" instead of "could've" bothers me.

Thats so gay, I hate that one so much, very derogatory toward gay people. What is means is gay = stupid

I have a friend who's Jewish and a lesbian. She was visiting a friend of hers, I won't mention where, but in that friend's community "That's so gay" was a very common phrase. So my friend talked to her friend about how offensive it was to her, and her friend talked to her family, and they agreed they'd try not to use that phrase around my friend. Later on, one of them used the phrase, "That's so Jewish" in exactly the same way, not knowing my friend was a Jew.

Anyway, yes, the use of such words pejoratively is awful and I hate how commonplace and accepted the phrase, "that's so gay" has become.

I've never used that phrase but I've heard it a lot from kids. I don't think there's an association with homosexuality when they say it. It's just a phrase.

Why not just live with it? There are few things in life more tedious than offended people.

I guess I'd rather raise educated and thoughtful children who know their language and history than children who mindlessly use pejorative phrases they don't even really understand.

Or maybe we should also just live with racial slurs, misogynistic epithets, and religious and cultural insults, accept that they're colloquial, and get on with out lives. In fact, let's not do anything about anything that we find wrong or upsetting, because by God we'll be found tedious by others who don't share our particular points of view and wish we'd just shut up about it already!

I guess I'd rather raise educated and thoughtful children who know their language and history than children who mindlessly use pejorative phrases they don't even really understand.

I like to dream sweet dreams too.

Or maybe we should also just live with racial slurs, misogynistic epithets, and religious and cultural insults, accept that they're colloquial, and get on with out lives. In fact, let's not do anything about anything that we find wrong or upsetting, because by God we'll be found tedious by others who don't share our particular points of view and wish we'd just shut up about it already!

Maybe we should! Seems better than getting hung up about it - whichever side of the 'insult' you are.